1 John 4:1-12

Illustration of 1 John 4:1-3 MESSAGE -- My dear friends, don't believe everything you hear. Carefully weigh and examine what people tell you. Not everyone who talks about God comes from God. There are a lot of lying preachers loose in the world. Here's how you test for the genuine Spirit of God. Everyone who confesses openly his faith in Jesus Christ — the Son of God, who came as an actual flesh-and-blood person — comes from God and belongs to God. And everyone who refuses to confess faith in Jesus has nothing in common with God. This is the spirit of antichrist that you heard was coming. Well, here it is, sooner than we thought!

Illustration of 1 John 4:11-12 -- Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

Illustration of 1 John 4:9-10 -- God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. This is real love — not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.

Illustration of 1 John 4:2-3 MESSAGE -- Here's how you test for the genuine Spirit of God. Everyone who confesses openly his faith in Jesus Christ — the Son of God, who came as an actual flesh-and-blood person — comes from God and belongs to God. And everyone who refuses to confess faith in Jesus has nothing in common with God. This is the spirit of antichrist that you heard was coming. Well, here it is, sooner than we thought!

Inspirational illustration of 1 John 4:12 -- No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

Illustration of 1 John 4:7 -- Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

Illustration of 1 John 4:11 -- Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Inspirational illustration of 1 John 4:8 -- Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Inspirational illustration of 1 John 4:12 -- No one has ever seen God, but if we love one another, God lives in us and His love is made complete in us.

Inspirational e-card of 1 John 4:11 -- Love one Another.

Inspirational illustration of 1 John 4:7 -- Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

Illustration of 1 John 4:12 -- No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

Image of 1 John 4:10 - In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and gave His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Illustration of 1 John 4:1 NLT -- Dear friends, do not believe everyone who claims to speak by the Spirit. You must test them to see if the spirit they have comes from God. For there are many false prophets in the world.

Inspirational illustration of 1 John 4:4 -- You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

Inspirational illustration of 1 John 4:9 -- This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

Illustration of 1 John 4:9 -- This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

Illustration of 1 John 4:9 -- This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

Illustration of 1 John 4:10 -- This is love: not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Illustration of 1 John 4:10 -- This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Illustration of 1 John 4:10 -- This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Illustration of 1 John 4:6 MESSAGE -- But we come from God and belong to God. Anyone who knows God understands us and listens. The person who has nothing to do with God will, of course, not listen to us. This is another test for telling the Spirit of Truth from the spirit of deception.

Illustration of 1 John 4:8 -- Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Illustration of 1 John 4:4 -- You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

Illustration of 1 Corinthians 12:3 NASU & 1 John 4:3 GWT -- No one can say, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ except by the Holy Spirit. But every person who doesn't declare that Jesus Christ has come as a human has a spirit that isn't from God.